Re: Audio Enriched Links Purpose

Hi Patti,

The purpose of the software is to give users a sort of glimpse of what 
is coming next on a web page. I woudn't necessarily call it a interim 
solution for a couple of reasons.

First, it's not in competition with what web developers could do to make 
their sites more accessible. Someone who is in control of what's shown 
on a web page can do a much better job of indicating where a link leads. 
The reason for this is simple: the human web author is infinitely 
smarter than the Audio Enriched Links software when it comes to 
describing what a web page contains. A web developer could certainly do 
a much better job of summarizing link destinations if he or she wanted 
to take the time.

However, I don't think web authors would want to label links with as 
much information as the AEL previews provide. Giving ten highlights of 
the next page, naming the title of the next page, giving statistics 
about the next page, and saying if the next page is on the same site or 
not is far to information to include in the simple label about each 
link. It would take forever to navigate all the links on a page! 
Therefore, even if a site was completely accessible, AEL previews might 
still be beneficial as summaries more detailed than the simple labels 
web authors give to links.

Pete
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